Scott Walker

Republican presidential candidates dismissed the dominance of Donald Trump in early primary polling, scrambling to position themselves days before their first debate. While candidates and their teams have spent hours privately strategizing how best to tackle the billionaire businessman in Thursday's debate, they publicly discounted the idea of Trump's rise even as a new poll showed the billionaire businessman continuing a summer surge. "Anybody can do well for a month in this business, especially if you have talent and you have personality, and Donald does," New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said on CNN's "State of the Union." Trump, meanwhile,...

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